Water-closet seat.



I PATENTED JUNE 2, 1908.

T. J. PLORBY. WATER CLOSET SEAT. APPLICATION FILED mun 1. 1901.

whiz wooed UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TILGHMAN .T. FLOREY, OF WASHINGTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SANITARY WORKS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

WATER-CLOSE T SE AT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Application filed. June 1, 1907. Serial No. 376,845.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, TILGHMAN J. FLOREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, Warren county, New Jersey, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in TVater-Closet Seats, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in the construction of wooden frames particularly useful in the forming of water closet seats and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide a certain construction which Will enable the frame or seat to be made up of several different pieces of wood, so as to arrange the grain in a direction best adapted to the purpose, the joints being so arranged as to resist warping and so as to give a most effective gluing surface.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the frame, with the several parts assembled, the dotted lines indicating the outline of the finished seat. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the side sections, detached. Fig. 3 is a view of the edge of the section shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an edge elevation of one of the end pieces.

A A are the side pieces. B B are the end pieces. These pieces are secured together in rectangular form, each oint being of the tongue and groove type. These joints are not miter'ed in the usual way, but are specially formed on the arc of a circle; hence a greater gluing surface is provided than were the joints formed on a straight line. The joints are indicated at 1, 2, 3 and 4. The tongue portions are indicated at a a and have substantially the same projection throughout, while the groove portion of one end piece arranged to receive a tongue is indicated at b, Fig. 4 and is of substantially the same depth throughout. The grain of the wood is parallel or substantially parallel with the straight edges of the side and end ieces. The joints 1, 2, 3 and 4 are relative y radial, although curved. By this arrangement each piece of the frame overlaps to some extent the grain of each adjacent piece and thus prevents the tendency to warp.

When the frame is completed the same may be finished or trimmed down to any de sired shape,- for example that indicated in dotted lines.

Superior results are attained by making the curve at the bottom of the groove and at the back of the tongue correspond, both of these curves in each joint having their convex surfaces in the same plane and on the same side, as will result by making the groove of substantially the same depth throughout, and the tongue of substantially the same projection throughout.

What I claim is:

1. A frame for a water closet seat composed of a plurality of wood sections joined along curved lines by a tongue and groove connection, and including means of junction diagonally opposite each other, each line being oblique to a median line of the frame, the projection of each tongue being substantially the same throughout and the depth of each groove being substantially the same throughout.

2. A frame for a water closet seat composed of a plurality of wood sections joined along curved lines by a tongue and groove connection, and including means of junction diagonally opposite each other, each line being oblique to a median line of the frame, the projection of each tongue being substantially the same throughout and the depth of each groove being substantially the same throughout, the grain of the side pieces being substantially at right angles to the grain of the end pieces.

TILGHMAN J. FLOREY.

Witnesses:

JAsoN II. WILDRICH, ERVIN SUNDAY. 

